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“Unfortunately, these figures are cause for outrage, not celebration,” said Gabriel Sayegh, state director at the Drug Policy Alliance. “In this economy, Mayor Bloomberg and the NYPD are wasting millions of tax dollars by using illegal searches and false charges to sweep tens of thousands of Black and Latino youth into the criminal justice system. Even with this drop, more people have still been arrested for small amounts of marijuana in 2011 then in same period in 2010.

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WNYC spoke to Josue Morel, 19, who was arrested for displaying marijuana in his hand. Since 1977, possession of less than 25 grams of concealed marijuana for personal use has been a non-criminal offense, subject to a maximum fine of $100. According to Morel, though, the dank in question was not unconcealed until officers removed it from his shirt during a stop and frisk.

Sadly, this seems to be all too common in New York City: low level, frequently illegal marijuana arrests in high crime, low-income neighborhoods as a result of the city’s stop and frisk policy. And as a result of that, over 85% of marijuana arrests in the city are of blacks and Latinos, even though young white people are more frequent users.